Species of Paspalum, Eleusine and Milium, are also cultivated as millets.

They grew bananas, manioc, the sweet potato, the sugarcane, maize, sorghum, rice, millet, eleusine and other fruits and vegetables, as well as tobacco, but the constant state of fear in which they lived, either of their neighbours or of the Arabs, offered small inducement to industry.

Eleusine indica is a common tropical weed; the nearly allied species E.